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Your New Favorite Travel Companion

Take hold of the textured grip and capture your next adventure with ultra-sharp precision. This 20.4MP beauty sports a 30x optical zoom and advanced 3-way image that makes action shots crystal clear. Add full manual control for more creative shots and 1080/60p movie recording for smoother footage. You can even map your memories with built-in GPS tagging and accessorize with a wide variety of available extras.

Amazing 30x Zoom

Zoom in incredibly close for great sports, travel and wildlife photos. The Cyber-shot HX50V camera boasts a powerful 30x optical zoom plus 60x Clear Image digital zoom technology to bring you near enough to capture the most distant details-from leaves on the trees, to smiles on the soccer field. The camera's powerful processor reduces graininess for crisper, higher-quality close-ups.

Say Goodbye to Blur

Your subject stays stabile even when your hand is anything but. Optical SteadyShot
image stabilization compensates for camera shake by countering camera
movements in both horizontal and vertical directions. Plus, Active 3-Way
stabilization keeps things even steadier with digital rolling control that offsets
clockwise and counterclockwise rotations, so videos are smoother even while
zoomed in close.

Pixel Power in Low Light

With the 20.4-megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor, you can capture
high-resolution images that take full advantage of the high-quality Sony G
lens. More pixels means you can enlarge, zoom in and crop your photos
without losing detail. Advanced processing technology reduces noise and
graininess for incredibly crisp, clear imageseven in challenging low-light
conditions.

Amazing HD Movies

Record crystal-clear movies at the highest resolution available with Full HD 1080/60p video capture (records in 29-minute segments). Stunning, fast-motion video with reduced distortion looks great when played back on your HDTV2. Notice a perfect photo opp while shooting video? With dual record of stills and movies, you can shoot both at the same time.

Total Control

For creative flexibility, the Cyber-shot HX50V features full manual and
dedicated EV control dial. You can enter Program Auto (P), Aperture Priority
(A), Shutter Speed Priority (S) or Manual Exposure (M) mode.

Never Miss the Moment

With high-speed shooting of up to 10 fps (frames per second) at full 20.4-megapixel resolution, it's perfect for sports, action photography, or capturing a unique sequence of photos. Your shots will be clear and blur-free thanks to a mechanical shutter which helps reduce distortion when continuously shooting moving subjects. The HX50V also features 5-blade aperture for smooth background defocusing

PlayMemories Online

With PlayMemories Online, all of your photos and videos can finally be stored, accessed and neatly organized in one place – regardless which device they were taken with. Enjoy your memories wherever, whenever you want on your smartphone, tablet, computer or TV. All images and video clips are automatically optimized to the screen size they're on. Create a photo album in 3 easy steps to share with friends and family via email or brighten a loved one's inbox with a personalized postcard – it's easy.

Features

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30x optical zoom plus 60x Clear Image Digital Zoom

Get super close with 30x optical zoom plus 60x Clear Image digital zoom. Most digital zooms use electronic cropping to get closer to the subject, resulting in unsharp images. With Clear Image Zoom the powerful processor compares patterns found in adjacent pixels and creates new pixels to match selected patterns, resulting in more realistic, higher-quality images. Clear Image Zoom doubles optical zoom for closer photos.

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Optical SteadyShot® image stabilization

Optical SteadyShot® image stabilization reduces shake and blur by countering camera movements in both horizontal and vertical directions.³ Active 3-Way stabilization adds digital rolling control that counters clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation, resulting in more stable videos even at long focal lengths

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20.4 Megapixel Back-illuminated Exmor® R CMOS Image Sensor

This camera features a 20.4 megapixel Exmor® R CMOS image sensor that brings out the full resolving power of the camera’s Sony G lens to deliver extremely fast speed, high resolution, and stunning low-light sensitivity with improved image clarity and drastically reduced grain.

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Full HD 1080/60p

Record crystal clear movies at the highest resolution available with capabilities for 60p in 1080 AVCHD™ video.¹ This provides stunning, fast motion video with less distortion for playback on your HD TV.2 With dual record of stills and movies, you can shoot both at the same time.

Capture full 20.4 megapixel resolution images at up to 10 frames per second, helping to ensure that the decisive moment is captured such as the soccer ball flying into the goal. In addition, a mechanical shutter helps reduce distortion when continuously shooting moving subjects.

Take up to 400 photos per charge for high-volume photography on-the-go. Perfect partner for travel.

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3.0" LCD (921K dots) with high resolution viewing

The 3.0-inch Xtra Fine LCD™ LCD has 921K dots for superb resolution.

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Intelligent Sweep Panorama™ mode-up to 360°

Intelligent Sweep Panorama mode takes our Sweep Panorama function to the next level with the addition of motion compensation. Even when subjects are moving in the foreground of your landscape, these cameras can detect faces and moving subjects, intelligently stitching different widths together to minimize distortion. Simply press the shutter button and sweep the camera in the desired direction and the camera continuously shoots at a high speed, then seamlessly stitches the images together with automatic position adjustment to create one stunning panoramic image. Available in wide and up to 360° full circle, the camera can take a variety of panoramic shots.

Weights and Measurements

Rated 2 out of 5 by Pilgrim Needs a bigger aperture
A really great camera, with all the features you could ever want except one very important spec. With an aperture of 3.5-6.3 it's almost impossible to get crisp images except in the brightest conditions. Low light situations and moving subjects are impossible. I'm forced to use noise reduction which creates an over-processed appearance. I had a HX9V before this and got clearer images with it. I am a big fan of Sony products, but this is one spec that will need to improve before I could buy a Sony camera again.
January 16, 2014

Rated 5 out of 5 by kingmo best compact camera
owned Hx9v before I replaced with Hx50v, solely because of the 30x optical/60x , I bring it everywhere I go, best travel camera on the market - panorama, super zoom, night/low light shooting and video recording is simple and amazingly good.
November 17, 2013